Corporate Power in a Globalizing World

William Carroll

This book follows in the tradition of The Vertical Mosaic. Published in 1965, Porter's Vertical Mosaic is, without a doubt, the most influential sociology text ever published in Canada. Ten years after the publication of Porter's book, Wallace Clement produced The Canadian Corporate Elite: An Analysis of Economic Power (Queen's-McGill), an equally ground-breaking publication. These books fundamentally transformed sociology in our country.

New foreword brings the book up to date.

Corporate Power in a Globalizing World

William Carroll

Description

Winner of the Porter Prize, this classic study thoroughly profiles the corporate elite of late twentieth-century Canada, within a global context. It traces the fundamental changes in the structure of corporate power in Canada since the mid-1970s and highlights such key issues as the place of Canadian corporate power in global context, the westward shift of Canadian corporate power, and the emergence of a North American corporate elite.

The book opens with a survey of corporate power and discusses the evolution from oligarchy to corporate governance. The majority of the chapters then profile what the author calls "particularities of time and place"-for example, corporate organization and "disorganized capitalism," strategic alignments, the westward shift, continental connections, the evolution of a North American corporate elite, and the Canadian corporate elite in the context of global power structures. The final segment highlights corporate and university governance in the era of neoliberalism and the consolidation of a neoliberal policy bloc. A new foreword brings the book completely up to date.

Corporate Power in a Globalizing World

William Carroll

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Wynford EditionPart I: Surveying the Terrain of Corporate Power Introduction 1: From Oligarchy to Corporate Governance: The End of the Old Boys' Network?Part II: Particularities of Time and Place 2: Corporate Organization and Disorganized Capitalism 3: Ties That Bind: Enterprises and Strategic Alignments 4: Westward Ho: Corporate Power's Changing Spatial Organization 5: Continental Connections: Toward North American Corporate Elite? 6: The Canadian Corporate Elite in the Global Power StructurePart III: Extending the Reach of Corporate Business 7: Corporate and University Governance in the Era of Neoliberalism 8: Consolidating a Neoliberal Policy BlocPart IV: Conclusions Appendix A: A Note on Methods Appendix B: Annotated List of Related Web Sites Bibliography Index